04/23/2008 April 23, 2008 -- /PRWEB/ -- SAN JOSE, CA -- Over the years, liquid chromatography has emerged as a workhorse technology in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, research and development, and industrial chemicals.
04/23/2008 The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), an industry-led consortium focused on identifying and closing technology gaps, has scheduled a workshop in Europe so industry members can review the work in progress on the 2009 iNEMI Roadmap. The all-day workshop will be held June 18, 2008 at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium.
04/23/2008 by Ed Korczynski, Senior Technical Editor, Solid State Technology
April 23, 2008 - Cleaning has always been essential for mask manufacturing, but today there is increasing concern to the point where fabs may soon clean masks in-house to prevent haze buildup. Meanwhile, EUV and NIL don't use pellicles, which almost certainly will mean cleaning masks in production. Seeking to address this need/opportunity is Applied Material, with its new Tetra Reticle Clean tool.
04/23/2008 NIL Technology has introduced a "high-accuracy but low-cost photonic stamp in silicon" to the company's product line geared to enable future photonic devices.
04/23/2008 PowerMetal Technologies Inc., supplier of nanotechnology enhanced materials to the sporting goods and consumer products industries, says that PGA Tour professional Trevor Immelman won the 2008 Masters using its EPIC shaft, a golf shaft designed in conjunction with Grafalloy to enable golfers to hit longer and straighter golf shots thanks to its proprietary nanofuse construction.
04/22/2008 The shareholders of the Griesheim, Germany-based company neosino nanotechnologies (FRA:N1N) have decided to rename the organization adinotec AG. The move follows from a change in focus beyond nanotechnology development.
04/22/2008 NanoSight Limited says it has received the 100th purchase order for its nanoparticle tracking analysis system, which counts individual particles in liquid.
04/22/2008 Angstron Materials LLC says it is the first to offer large quantities of single-atom-thick nano-graphene platelets (NGPs), which the company says have thermal conductivity 5x that of copper, and surface area 2x that of carbon nanotubes.
04/22/2008 Apr. 22, 2008 - Renesas Technology and European R&D consortia IMEC have entered into a strategic research collaboration to develop 45nm RF transceivers for Gbit/sec cognitive radios, building on previous work with 130nm RF transceiver (results published at last year's ISSCC).
04/22/2008 "This is very significant for Lockheed Martin and we think we will reap benefits across the business," said Sharon Smith, director of Advanced Technology at Lockheed Martin, in announcing her company's new collaboration with Rice University on nanotechnology research: The Lockheed Martin Advanced Nanotechnology Center of Excellence at Rice University (LANCER).
04/22/2008 Apr. 22, 2008 - Hynix Semiconductor has made an investment in Taiwan's design house Phison Electronics in a bid to prop up its NAND flash memory business, according to local reports.
04/22/2008 April 22, 2008 -- /PRWEB/ -- SAN JOSE, CA -- Demand for disinfectant products is on the rise, driven by increasing health consciousness and hygiene awareness.
04/22/2008 April 22, 2008 - Qimonda AG reported a big loss in its fiscal 2Q08, indicating it is still mired in "extremely difficult market conditions," and laid out further cost reduction plans, including some changes to its technology partnerships.
04/22/2008 For the fifth consecutive year, Oerlikon Esec was recognized by Infineon Technologies, Sdn. Bhd; but for the first time, the company received awards in both Best Performer and Best Supplier catgories for 2006/07. The two companies have been working together on the realization and implementation of a copper wire bonding project.
04/21/2008 April 21, 2008 - Researchers at the Energy research Center of the Netherlands (ECN) say they have developed a method to improve solar cell efficiency in crystalline silicon industrial solar cells, by making them from n-type silicon wafers instead of p-type ones.
04/21/2008 April 21, 2008 - A $40M VC investment in a US-based LED epitaxy technology is generating rumors that TSMC is making a push into this market segment.
04/21/2008 April 21, 2008 - Micron Technology and Taiwan's Nanya Technology have formalized a recently announced partnership to create a new DRAM JV. An analyst tells WaferNEWS who should be most worried and why.
04/21/2008 by M. David Levenson, Editor-in-Chief, Microlithography World
April 21, 2008 - KLA-Tencor's Wafer Plane Inspection software attempts to do with computation what Zeiss' AIMS and Applied Materials' Aera2 try to do with optics: sort printable defects from harmless anomalies and false defects (backed up in a paper coauthored with Intel). Success will facilitate meaningful inspection of complicated OPC masks, and more creative solutions to advanced imaging problems employed in production.
04/21/2008 April 21, 2008 -- /SAN JOSE, CA/ -- North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.16 billion in orders in March 2008 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.89 according to the March 2008 Book-to-Bill Report published by SEMI.
04/21/2008 Systat Software has made its new SigmaPlot 11, which it calls "the most advanced scientific graphing and data analysis software," available as a free trial download. Used in nano, micro/MEMS, and other disciplines, it provides more than 50 statistical methods and 100 graph types.
